Sentences with phrase «of beatific»

I so do not have a daughter, and I bet my two sons are jealous of this beatific mother who does not look the least bit haggard or unkempt.

In the many different artworks — from a framed portrait of a beatific Uncle Ben (of rice box fame) to a kitty litter ad from Ebony magazine stripped of its marketing copy — Thomas uses provocation and sly humor to help viewers understand not only their place in the consumer culture, but also how the way things are sold to us impacts how we see ourselves and others.

Outside of a beatific facelift that adds homey background detail (including Toads in swan boats and several hot air balloons), the course features the same core set pieces as before, primarily the massive jump by Peach's Castle.

Museimpresa - Italian Industry Museums Italian museums offer much more than portraits of beatific Madonnas and maleficent Medicis hung along dusty corridors with dim lighting.

The movie flirts with the outline of a coherent plot, but the answers to its dramatic questions have all sunk to the ocean floor in a plume of beatific marine footage and Cronenbergian body horror.

It's horrible and melodramatic and maudlin, and it's straight out of the Nicholas Sparks School of Beatific Men and the Unrepentant Whores Who Destroy Their Precious Souls.

And she has that kind of beatific quality.

While other celebrity moms appear to exist in an unearthly state of beatific perfection, Teigen is all over Instagram and Twitter showing all the weird, real aspects of parenting that the rest of us go through.

We find such a picture in the tenth - century Irish Vision of Adamnan, in a curious scene that captures the sociability of the beatific vision.

Comrades in rapture, Monica and Augustine have experienced something like a foretaste of the beatific vision as enjoyed in the communion of saints.

The presence of God in the sanctuary establishes a relationship against which death can not prevail; hence it is logical that when notions of a beatific afterlife eventually begin to develop, they should take a liturgical shape.

In John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, as the heroes Christian and Hopeful approach the celestial city they fall sick with desire; but ultimately this sickness heals them and makes them strong enough to bear the delights of the beatific vision.

There is the sheer giving and ecstatic happiness in being possessed by everlasting love, and concomitantly with this and fusing with it is the joy of possessing God as He is by means of the beatific vision.36

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

Two metaphysical sensibilities seem to be in play here, which perhaps can not be resolved short of the beatific vision.

Questions of eschatology in Christian theology quickly become questions of protology, and so we must ask how this picture of a beatific vision absent nonhuman life affects how we are to think of creation in the first place.

His interlocutor defends «a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision» which has the consequence of preventing any pesky animals from passing through the Pearly Gates.

The human nature of Christ was predestined by God to that highest glory of the beatific sharing in the inner life of the divine persons.

In this context the book elaborates that suffering is not to be feared but rather embraced as «a sure pledge of His tenderness... This guarantee, this real testimony of the Beatific Vision, which made the souls of the saints sigh with joy, is not the brilliant successes of this world, or temporal glory or happiness, but trialsand suffering» (p. 294).

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Armed with these materials, one could mark out an intelligent path from the earliest materials in the Hebrew Bible to Dante's portrayal of the final end of humanity in the beatific vision.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

In fact he has given us the highest destiny of all, to become utterly like him and to see him as he really is in what we call «The Beatific Vision».

That the souls of the just enjoy the Beatific Vision while yet awaiting the resurrection of their bodies is also solemnly defined doctrine (Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000; cf. Lumen Gentium 49).

Yet we hope to live with a beatific vision of God and life even if we can not see his blinding glory.

An obediential potentiality is one whose actualization goes beyond the natural, innate limitations of its subject, while not being irreconcilable with those limitations, e.g. the direct intuition of God in the beatific vision.

Though recent critics applaud Chaucer for being a «nonjudgmental» poet of this world (and thus distinguishable from Dante), Klassen draws attention again to the fact that both Dante and Chaucer are animated by a «poetic of hope» rooted in the beatific vision.

Grace prompts communion in love that terminates in the gift of perfect union, which we call the Beatific Vision.

This Being would be a source of hope and the goal of unmitigated beatific vision toward which all seekers could, through love, direct their wills.

The end of this journey is the beatific vision — to see God and to rest in God — and that vision is granted only to those who are perfected, to the pure in heart.

Knowledge is preeminent also in the final bliss of the elect; the essence of salvation is the beatific vision.

Heaven is life with God, in the enjoyment of «the beatific vision.»

If sanctification is not complete here on earth, is it somehow completed between the time of death and the beatific vision?

Through the hypostatic union of God the Word with the human nature, men are given the highest possible destiny - beatific transformation as co-sharers of the infinite Godhead.

Sin can play no part in the plan of God, and there can be left no stain of sin in the hearts of any who enjoy the Beatific Vision.

Since the distinction between natural and supernatural orders tends to dissolve if the desire for the beatific vision is built into every natural judgment, the normativity of Scriptural statements and magisterial pronouncements is undermined.

Hence every natural act of knowing contains anatural desire for the beatific vision.

They will still be technically in hell, since they will lack the beatific vision, but they will enjoy a kind of natural felicity, like that of infants who die without baptism.

Only in the beatific vision - the end toward which philosophy, the love of wisdom, is oriented - will those limits be overcome.

He does not invite us into communion with himself, nor is there any possibility of seeing him as he really is in the Beatific Vision.

As the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.

Bynum maintains that even the beatific vision of the soul (separated from the body), affirmed by Benedict, occurs only after the soul is endowed with the specificity and particularity that had previously been associated with body.

According to Catholic teaching, as defined at the Councils of Lyons (1274) and Florence (1439), those who die in the grace of God expiate their unforgiven venial or pardonable sins by undergoing due punishment before being admitted to the beatific vision.

That granted, the traditional scheme was right in speaking of «heaven» as it did, with the «beatific vision» and the bliss or happiness which is granted through that vision.

Such a way of living sounds beatific.

Since the presence of God is reserved only for the worthy, imperfections and lesser evils in one's life have to be «worked off» before the beatific vision is possible.

The beatific vision is reached gradually through a life of contemplative prayer.

Their lives were suddenly sparked by an encounter with the Channel 0 news team: the woman in the office receiving a beatific vision of the Channel 0 helicopter outside her office window; the one on the street seeing the News team at work; and the old woman being given help with her parcels by the Channel 0 news anchor.

I honestly hesitate to criticise him, not least because he appears to be a personally devout, good and humble man, and a highly accomplished scholar, who will no doubt be enjoying the Beatific Vision while I am still trudging around the lower levels of Mount Purgatory.

From this we learn that the beatific vision does not cancel out our personality or God's, but rather gives us the measure by which we may understand all human possibility, and it places sociability at the heart of divine union, It is a profoundly ecclesial vision.